He understood it, as some of his early speeches show, and he might have "established a just Land Court with the support of all the best land-owners in Ireland."* Why the Land Court established by Gladstone in 1881 was unjust Froude did not explain.
Some of the best landlords, if not all, supported it, and it relieved an intolerable situation.
-- * Table Talk of Shirley, p.

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